To traverse the whole, to touch the depth of being, is to awaken the ambiguity coiled inside."
--Emmanuel Levinas
Nine Talmudic Readings

Richard Ryan
Richard Ryan is in private practice in Westwood, California working with adults, adolescents and children. He also works part-time for the Jung Institute of Los Angeles. Clincal interests include journaling, creativity, mindfulness and spirituality, working with dreams, images and the creative use of reverie and imagination. He is currently completing a dissertation on the splitting and fragmentation of psychic functioning.

 

EDUCATION:
• Ph.D. Candidate in Clinical Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.
• Masters in Social Work from New Mexico Highlands University, 1996. Las Vegas, NM.
• B.A. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
• Licensed psychotherapy practice. LISW# (Licensed Independent Social Worker)
• Richard expects to complete his dissertation research in 2005. He is writing about the transcendent function in the theories of C. G. Jung and Wilfred Bion.

LICENSES HELD:
· NM LISW #I-05176 (Licensed Independent Social Worker)
·· CA LCSW #23135 (Licensed Clinical Social Worker)

• CLINICAL WORK
· Private Practice, 1998-Present
· C.G. Jung Institute Los Angeles, 2005-2006
· Santa Fe Public Schools, 1997-2004
· Hacienda Velarde, 1996-1997
· Santa Fe Rape Crisis Center, 1995-1996
· Home Visit Services, Hospice Care 1994-1995


• PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
· The psychological meaning of September 11, 2001.
· Synchronicity, vocation, and world events.
· Sand play therapy, neurobiology, and trauma recovery.
· Ecopsychology.